Mr. Gerry Barr at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On November 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.

November 29th, 2007 / 11:50 a.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Council for International Cooperation

I'd simply like to say that if I were the current CIDA's director I would further strengthen the development and diplomacy role under our current national formula. We have a 3D formula, but each “D” is not of equal importance. In our opinion,

the failure of CIDA has really been to not be sufficiently assertive about the development role in this equation of three-D.

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